Chapter Ninety-One: The Divine Tower

What level is Liverpool?

It's hard to say, they reached the Champions League final in 1977 and 1978 and won the Champions League, and most of the players have won the first two titles.

But Wu Jie feels that the problems of this Liverpool team are similar to those of Nottingham Forest, the group of players who swept Europe at the beginning are old, there are many injuries, and many of them have passed their prime.

However, Liverpool have lost their hopes of winning the league title and are out of the FA Cup, allowing them to focus on the Champions League.

Liverpool, who originally had two legs of 1:1 in the semi-finals, defeated Bayern Munich to enter the final with an away goal advantage, and finally defeated Real Madrid 1-0 in the final to successfully lift the Champions League trophy for the third time in five years.

However, this score shows that Liverpool has little advantage, and it also shows that the defense of these three teams is good, and basically only one goal can decide the outcome of the game.

Chernay also based on defense today, with no goals conceded as the first premise, and then see if Wu Jie can use his personal ability to create goals.

That's right, Bayern's tactics today are very conservative, and the first task is to ensure that Liverpool does not score away goals, even if it is 0:0, it is not a small profit.

The specific style of play is to use Wu Jie's personal ability to play less on the offensive end, and use the numerical advantage to defend more on the defensive end.

But as soon as he came to the field, Wu Jie found that Liverpool's tactics were more conservative, and the British had to ensure that the defensive end was airtight even if they didn't attack.

There are two or three players lurking around him all the time, and although they will not defend him at the same time, as soon as he gets the ball, he will immediately come up close to the circle, and there will be at least two people around him who are ready to cut off his contact with his teammates and wait for the opportunity to intercept the pass.

This kind of defense Wu Jie is also the first time to see, even with his ability, it is difficult to break the game by himself, and he can only use his involvement to help his teammates on both wings create opportunities.

However, Liverpool frantically put seven or eight men in the 30-metre area in front of goal, with only two strikers looking for opportunities near midfield, and in many cases even Liverpool's number one star Dalglish has to be involved in defence.

At this moment, the second leader of the Liverpool boot room, Bob Paisley, looked at the crowded half of his house with a blank expression.

Of course he knows it's ugly and ugly, but if you want to go to the end in the Champions League, it's so ugly after the quarter-finals.

Bayern's style of play today is no better, the home fans have been ridiculing and insulting Liverpool as a shrunken turtle, but Paisley, who is deteriorating in health, does not feel ashamed to play like this at all.

Liverpool was also the team that pursued Wu Jie at the beginning, and they were very clear about Wu Jie's ability.

Today is Bayern's home stadium again, he is not willing to use foul tactics against Wu Jie, that means giving Bayern a large number of free kicks, now who doesn't know that "Chinese Arc" is the best at playing long-distance free kicks?

After Wu Jie's free kick was studied in the "boot room", he came to the conclusion that it was really magical and the threat was very big, and unless he was sure of getting the home whistle, he would never be allowed to get a free kick easily.

Then since they can't cut the aliens, they can only use the tactics of layered encirclement to restrain this guy.

However, Bayern also have two big players, Breitner and Rummenigge, and the two wings are not good, and they should not take these people lightly.

In the end, I would rather not attack, but also ensure that I don't concede a goal.

Today's victory and defeat were arranged by him in the last ten minutes, to put it bluntly, he was shameless for 80 minutes, and then waited for the last ten minutes to see the opportunity to complete several sneak attacks.

If the sneak attack is successful, it will be a triumphant return.

Even if the sneak attack fails, as long as you don't lose the ball, it will be considered a retreat.

Today, both sides focus only on the result, not the process.

So the first half was called an ugly one, whether it was a ground attack or a long pass, such a dense defensive formation made it impossible for both sides to organize a decent attack.

However, even so, Wu Jie is still the brightest man on the field, because he is the only one who can still pose a threat to Liverpool in a crowded environment.

Although Liverpool's defense is impenetrable by numbers, Wu Jie still has a few consecutive dribbles, although he failed to create great chances, but at least it can prove that his skills are a cut above the players of the two teams, and no one else can complete a series of dribbles like him under this kind of defense.

However, what frightened Liverpool the most was Wu Jie's long-range shot, Clemens could already feel the horror of the "elevator ball" in the video, but he didn't expect Wu Jie's long-range shot to kick such a weird arc.

In the first half, Wu Jie had three long-range shots from 25 meters out, one of which was Clemens's mental concentration to save the ball, but another time the ball had broken through his ten fingers and hit the goal frame, and the other time was also flying off the bottom line by grazing the post.

Those three long-range shots were the closest Bayern had to score in the first half, and Wu Jie's outstanding performance made the home fans anxious and happy, as Bayern failed to create a goal despite outperforming Liverpool on the field, including creating chances.

Liverpool fans will be anxious + frightened, in the first half they watched their team defend like a turtle, Bayern every attack made them dare not breathe, because all fans with a little common sense know that once Bayern scores, they will definitely use this kind of turtle defense to deal with Liverpool, and it will be really difficult to play at that time.

Fortunately, Liverpool's turtle shell was never breached, and the two teams played 0-0 in the first half.

At half-time, the German commentators were mocking Liverpool's turtle defence.

Because from the data point of view, Bayern's possession rate reached 70% in the first half, and the ratio of shots on goal was 11:2, which is basically Bayern beating Liverpool.

But Chernay didn't dare to be careless, he also watched the first half of the game with trepidation, for fear of the rise of his own team, and he didn't know how to retreat if he attacked, in case Liverpool seized the opportunity to play a deadly counterattack, it would be passive.

Fortunately, the discipline of this team is quite strict under his tutelage, don't look at the disparity in the statistics between the two teams in the first half, but in fact, Bayern left enough manpower to prevent the opponent from counterattacking every attack.

But he also knows that the best result is 0:0 if he continues to play like this.

But this is not the best result for Bayern, and the home game still has to win to qualify.

So in the second half, Wu Jie was pushed back into the forward line, and Chernaui replaced Hoeness with a midfielder, and once again let Wu Jie play the center, and changed to the tactics of long passing and hanging.

Wu Jie felt that this change of formation was very ingenious, although he was reluctant to play center, it was obviously not a good idea to continue to play free man in this game.

Liverpool piled up too many players in defence to give him a chance to break through with the ball or pass through.

At this time, becoming a high school striker into the box can give him and his teammates more threatening opportunities.

The change worked, and just two minutes into the second half, Breitner got up in the middle and crossed the ball into the box.

Wu Jie didn't care about showing off his skills at this time, and gave full play to his height and bounce advantages, forced Liverpool's captain Phil Thompson in the air, and successfully pushed the ball to the direction of Rummenigge.

Rummenigge picked up the ball just outside the box, spun and flashed out of the gap and immediately got up to hit the goalkeeper, but the ball hit the side-netting after two defenders interfered with it.

Wu Jie didn't say anything, Rummenigge also had a lot of people defending around him, and it was impossible to give him too much time to take the ball and make moves in this case, otherwise more people would soon enter the defensive position, and there would be no chance to shoot at that time.

But in this case, if you want to shoot a perfect angle to break through the goalkeeper's ten fingers, it depends on luck to replace him, and it is impossible to point where to hit every difficult shot.

However, this attack proved that Chernaui's arrangement was effective, and Liverpool did not expect Wu Jie to suddenly play a tactical center, and the defensive formation finally had a hint of confusion.

"Colin, go warm up!"

Paisley was surprised by Bayern's change of formation, but as the head of Liverpool's second boot room, his level of adaptability was naturally no worse than that of Chernaui.

With just one attack, he spotted the problem and immediately prepared to switch to a tall defender to continue the defense.

"Bob, keep fighting like this, public opinion will be very unfavorable to you!"

Coach Fagan kindly reminded that the British media will not only spread rumors, but they will also do everything they can to find faults, including making trouble for their own people, which is also a skill they are good at.

Paisley shook his head and didn't answer, he didn't know that even if this turtle tactic was kept 0:0, he would definitely be criticized by the media when he returned to the UK tomorrow, including a lot of saliva from his own fans.

But he knows that Bayern in front of him is definitely stronger than Liverpool in terms of hard power, and this is Bayern's home stadium, if he doesn't pretend to be a grandson, the result will definitely be beaten as a grandson.

But this kind of talk can only be kept in mind, how can the British team be inferior to the German team in terms of hard power?

If you say this kind of thing, then you have to apologize, okay?

However, before Liverpool completed the substitution, Wu Jie created another chance.

This time it was Kurt's 45-degree cross from the left, and Wu Jie retreated slightly to use a historic stop and stepped on the ball directly under his feet.

Liverpool's central defender Alan Hansen is stupid, is it okay to pass the ball so high and so far and step directly on the soles of his feet?

However, Wu Jie didn't just step on the soles of his feet, 0.1 seconds after stopping the ball, he poked the ball at Allen's feet, and just like that, the football passed under the opponent's crotch.

Allen hurriedly turned around, but Wu Jie's speed was faster, not only squeezed in first, but also knocked him directly to the ground.

Liverpool captain Phil Thompson hurriedly filled the position, Wu Jie did not get up after catching up with the football, and faced Phil Thompson first made a foot back pull action with his left foot.

This fancy pull ball made the ball roll in the direction of Phil Thompson, but Wu Jie seemed to be separated in an instant.

No matter how you look at it, it looks like a mistake, and Phil Thompson thought that Wu Jie had gotten away when he saw this, and immediately kicked the football, ready to cut off the attack.

But just when he was about to kick football, Wu Jie's right foot stepped on the ball first, then pulled it in his direction, and then knocked forward with his left foot, and a dehumanizing person was born.

At this time, Phil Thompson, who had already kicked the football, was completely deceived into losing his center of gravity, and could no longer react after kicking the kick, and could only watch Wu Jie complete the pass with a set of juggling moves.

Wu Jie did not use the "Bengbu Roundabout" this time, but used two quick and consistent pulls to play the Liverpool captain, and then accelerated to the penalty area to complete the shot before the assistant defenders were in place.

Clemens flew to the football, but this time Wu Jie had time to aim and exert force, no matter how fast his save was, he couldn't get the shot football, only to see the black and white elf fly into the goal by grazing the far goalpost and hit his head on the side net inside the goal.